Chapter 18

On the next day Nicolette woke up with a killer headache. When she felt movement next to her, she turned her head carefully and met Daves serious, brown eyes.

"How are you?" He asked quietly.

"Well, I don't feel like I would be on the top of the world." She grimaced.

Dave stood up and smiled to himself, when he felt her eyes in his back at the same time when he went to bathroom. He came soon back to bedroom with a class of water and painkillers and gave those to Nicolette.

"Thanks, honey." She smiled weakly when she took the class and pills.

While Dave was on shower, Nicolette tried to think hard, that had she said or done something at night, what would have made him so serious, but she couldn't get anything like that to her mind. When Dave came from the shower all wet and only a towel around him, Nicolette licked her lips and he saw it.

"Do you like what you see?" He had to smile to her admiring expression.

"Oh, yes" She yelled and grimaced then, because her head hurt. Then she stood up and went to bathroom.

After the breakfast they went to Jeff and Adams room, where they met Lilian as well. All three asked, that how Nicolette was doing, and they were all grinning widely. She just rolled her eyes as an answer. When they had talked for a while, Nicolettes mobile peeped and she saw that Shawn had sent her a message, that he and Amy were on the hotel.

"Okay, Shawn and Amy are here. I'll go see them." She stated looking at Dave. "Are you coming?"

He nodded and followed her when she went to knock on her sisters and Shawns door. When Amy opened the door, Nicolette took her to tight hug.

"Hey, sis. How are you? How's your knee?"

"I'm just fine and my knee is healed totally. How's your arm?" Amy answered when her sister let her go.

"It's not quite like before yet, and I'll need some help in work, but it is almost totally healed." She grimaced a little.

Nicolette and Dave entered the room and she had to smile, when she looked at Amy. She was so happy about that what Shawn was planning and it was very difficult to cover up. She was happy that Shawn had told Dave, so she had someone to talk about that. When they had talked a while, Dave turned to Amy.

"Do you want to come to gym? I thought that I'll take a short exercise before the show."

"Actually, why not?" Amy answered and didn't see the relieft glances between Nicolette and Shawn. She looked at Shawn. "Are you coming too?"

"I think I'll pass this time. But you can go with Dave." He answered maybe a bit too excited tone of voice. Amy didn't pay attention to it anyway.

Dave and Amy agreed that they'll meet downstairs and when Nicolette and Dave left the room, Shawn winked her.

Soon after Amy had gone to gym with Dave, Shawn knocked on Daves and Nicolettes door. When she opened it, Shawn asked smiling.

"Are you ready to go do some shopping?"

"Yeah." She laughed. "Wait, I'll get my purse."

They went to Shawns car and drove to town. They had walked few steps on the mainstreet, when Shawn stood infront jewellers shop.

"That ring looks nice. Do you think that Amy would like it?" When Nicolette had nodded smiling widely, he added. "Let's go inside. We don't have much time, if we want to be back in hotel, when Dave and Amy come back from gym."

They entered the jewellers and asked to see the ring, which they had seen in display window.

"It is really beautiful." Nicolette said, when she held in her hand a thin golden ring, which held a small blue stone. "I think you should buy it."

"Do you want to try it?" Sales woman asked looking her eyes glowing to Nicolette. She and Shawn laughed a little.

"Actually it's not for me." Nicolette said and looked then Shawn. "But if it fits my finger, I'm sure it fits Amy. Our fingers are quite similar size."

Shawn nodded and Nicolette put the ring in her finger, that fit perfectly.

"You think that I should take it?" Shawn made sure, when Nicolette had given the ring back to sales woman.

"Absolutely."

Shawn took his wallet and paid the ring. When the sales woman had wrapped it up, she gave it to Shawn and they left the shop. When they were back on the car, Nicolette looked at him.

"Are you going to do it tonight?"

"Yes."

"Amy will be so surprised and happy." She said smiling widely.

When Shawn started the car, he thought that Nicolette had no idea, how surprised and probably happy she would be on the very next day.

When Shawn and Nicolette returned to hotel, they were on their rooms five minutes before Amy and Dave came back from gym. Dave entered the room and saw his girlfriend sitting on couch and she looked very pleased.

"So, did you do your shopping?"

"Yes. We found a really beautiful ring. You'll see it tomorrow, I guess. Shawn said that he will propose Amy tonight."

Dave gave a secret sigh of relief, he was glad that Shawn had decided to do it already now, otherwise Dave wouldn't have the patience to wait that he could surprise his own girlfriend.

Dave and Nicolette spent few hours together watching TV before they had to leave to show. They went there together with Amy and Shawn. Before the sisters entered the arena behind the men, Amy asked Nicolette.

"Have you noticed, if Shawn in planning something?"

Nicolette swallowed a little and chose her words carefully.

"I haven't notice anything… Are you sure?"

"He has been acting weird for few days, so I thought that he is planning something."

"If he is just worried about Matt and Hunter. And he does have a triple threat match against Dave and Hunter on the next show. Maybe he is thinking that."

"Yeah, maybe that is it." Amy said thoughtfully. "But you and Dave do know that he has no actual interest to take the belt from Dave, don't you? He just wants to kick Hunters ass once again."

"Of course I know that. And if he takes his belt, he knows that I will not want to see him ever again." Nicolette answered grinning a little, getting a amused glance from Shawn, who had heard her last comment.

Nicolette went to the first aid room and agreed with the man, who had been covering her while she was on leave, on what they both would do. Then started her working day again. She mainly taped knees and ankles and cleaned some cuts. In the middle of the show Victoria entered the room when Nicolette had just taped Randys elbow. She started to clean the cut in her hand, when the blackhaired woman said.

"Seems like Dave had began to loose interest in you."

Nicolette lifted her eyes to woman and looked confused, at the same time Randy let out some kind of snort.

"What do you mean?"

"He asked me for a drink with him at our last show, but I said no." Victoria answered.

"I'm sure that you misunderstood it." Nicolette said standing up.

"That couldn't been misunderstood." She said evil grin in her face. "And I don't wonder at all, that he is interested of me. I am a diva and you are just backstage staff."

"I heard that it was totally different way. Dave said no to you and drinks together." Randy intervened when he saw, that Nicolette wasn't sure should she believe her or not.

Nicolette stared at her and didn't believe her ears. She knew deep inside that Dave wasn't interest of Victoria, but she felt, that she should hear it from himself. She turned and ran out of the room leaving Randy and evilly smiling Victoria to watch after her.

"You are a bitch, Victoria." Randy barked before he left the room.

Nicolette banged Daves lockerroom door and when he opened it, she hissed.

"I heard an interesting thing a moment ago from Victoria."

He sighed and pulled her to room. Shawn who shared the lockerroom with Dave, looked at them amused.

"Ah, Victoria told you about her attempt to hit Dave."

Nicolette glanced at longhaired man wondering a little his words.

"What do you mean, her attempt to hit Dave? She said that Dave had came on to her. Though in the other hand, Randy said…" She paused to take a breath and Dave got the change to explain.

"It is like Shawn said. Victoria asked me for a drink with her on the last show and I said no. I told her that I have a girlfriend, who I love very much."

Dave smiled a little when he saw her expression come softer.

"For real?"

"For real." Dave laughed a little. "And I will show it to you very soon."

When he a little warning glance from Shawn, he tought that he had said too much, but didn't care about it so much.

"Oh, you will?" Now she had a seductive smile on her lips. "What have you planned? A romantic dinner? Movie? Driving in moonlight? Trip to Disneyland?"

Shawn and Dave bursted to laugher.

"You will see soon." Dave answered. "Shouldn't you go back to work?"

Nicolette stretched to give him a kiss and then she ran out of the room.

"We will both have hands full with girls." Shawn stated laughing, when the door had closed after Nicolette.

"It looks like it." Dave grinned.

"Adam, you should be more careful, when you wrestle with Jeff. He is so much smaller than you." Nicolette grinned at Canadian after the last match of the night. Adam had been a bit careless when he had hit Jeffs head, and the bluehaired man had come to first aid his forehead bleeding. Jeff grimaced because it stinged, when she cleaned the cut.

"The day will come when I kick your ass, Copeland." Jeff stated.

"What ever you say, Hardy." The Canadian grinned.

"Hey, Nikki. Are you and Dave coming out with us tonight?" Jeff turned to her.

"Yeah, I think we are."

"What about Shawn and Ames? Should we ask them?" Adam asked.

"No!" Nicolette cried out and got some weird glances from Adam and Jeff. "I mean... They have plans already. Yes, they have plans for this night." She tried to cover her words without so good success.

"Plans? What plans? I haven't heard anything." Jeff looked at her.

"I can't tell you, I promised that I won't tell anyone." She sighed. Then first aid room door opened and Dave came in. Nicolette gave a sigh of relief, because she didn't want – and couldn't – tell what Shawn had planned.

"Are you ready to go soon?" Dave asked.

"Yeah, can you just help me get my things together."

Dave helped her and then they drove together to the hotel.

Nicolette and Dave were ready to go to club with others, though Nicolette was first planning that they would spend a peaceful night together, but she was so excited about the fact that Shawn would ask her sister to marry him on that night, that she decided to go out with Dave and others. Though she wasn't going to drink on that night, last night had been enough.

When Nicolette and Dave were getting ready to go to club, Shawn and Amy arrivedto a restaurant, where they had a t reservation. Amy was surprised, when they were led to a private room. For Amys point of view Shawn acted a bit strange, but she didn't pay so much attention to it. The main thing was that she was with a man she loved. They had a nice dinner and just when they had their deserts, Shawn took her hand.

"Amy, you know that I love you so much."

Amy didn't say anything, she was so concentrated on that she still actually would keep breathing. Shawn put his other hand to his pocket and put a small parcel to the table. Amy looked first at the parcel and then Shawn.

"Amy Christine Dumas, will you give me the priviledge to marry you?"

Amy felt like she would pass out immediately. She just started at the man who was waiting for her answer.

So, there will be some ass kicking again in the next chapter...